Salesforce Tower is the tallest building in San Francisco at 1,070 feet (or 296m), but how does it stack up to the Red Keep from “Game of Thrones?”
A new video from Madrid-based 3-D graphics company MetaBallStudios, credited to artist Álvaro Gracia Montoya, shows the height of dozens of buildings from science-fiction and fantasy universes, ranging from “Game of Thrones” and “Star Wars” to “Lords of the Rings and the video game series “Halo.” The heights come sourced from fan pages, often with a small margin of error to account for the fact that, well, these buildings don’t exist in real life.
The video starts with pint-sized buildings like the Mobile Laboratory from “Ant-Man and the Wasp” (~0.40 meters) and the Krusty Krab from “SpongeBob SquarePants” (~0.50m), then moves onto cartoon castles from properties like “Cinderella” (58m) and “Shrek” (~160m).
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It turns out the Red Keep is only about half as tall as Salesforce at roughly 160m. Comparable structures include Minas Tirith from “The Lord of the Rings” (305m), the Wormhole Machine from “Contact” (~340m) and Avengers Tower (344m). From “Star Wars,” the Imperial Palace is roughly three times the height of Salesforce at 1,000m.
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Watch the video below to see the the dozens more structures from properties like “Star Trek,” “Judge Dredd” and “Monsters Inc.” that dwarf our own massive skyscraper, or scroll through the above slideshow to see the biggest buildings.
Dan Gentile is a digital editor at SFGATE. Email: Dan.Gentile@sfgate.com | Twitter: @Dannosphere